Creative Memories®

Power of Organisation
C r o pTa l k ®
Getting organised is the first step to starting your album projects. Creative Memories offers an organisation solution for almost every item
you use in your album projects, from photos and memorabilia to photo mounting paper and stickers. You can rest assured that you are getting
the very best in tested photo-safe products.

1 Power™ So
Sort Box
Organise photos
photo and memorabilia in this photo-safe
detachable cover and base that safely holds
box with its det
2,400 photos. It includes twelve compartment boxes and
twelve tabbed ddividers.

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Power™ So
Sort Mini Box
Store negatives,
negative photos, index prints and CDs in this
photo-safe box. It includes three compartment
sturdy photo-s 1. Power™ Sort Box 2. Power™ Sort Mini Box
boxes and six ttabbed Power™ Sort Dividers.

3 NegCare™ Sleeves
The NegCare™ Sleeves protect your individual negative
strips from sscratches, smudges and abrasions. They
come in sets oof six. They are large enough to hold a 36
of film. NegCare™ Sleeves are designed to
exposure roll o
be stored in the Power™ Sort Mini Box.

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NegCare™ Envelopes
Features a se
set of twelve photo-safe envelopes for
documenting aand storing NegCare™ Sleeves, index prints 3. NegCare™ Sleeves 4
4. NegCare™ Envelopes
or photo CDs
CDs, to then be placed inside the Power™ Sort
Mini Box.

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Crop Box
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Manager™ 2.0 Software
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File
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The File MateMat stores memorabilia, photos, photo

mounting paper
pape and more in an expandable, photo-safe
file system.

8 Tools Tote
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Protect your aalbums and album-making supplies during
transport with the Tools Tote.

7. File Mate

8. Tools Tote
(products inside not included)
9 Power P
Palette Organiser Case
& Folders
Folde
The Power™ Palette Organiser makes it easy to organise,
store and ttransport Power™ Palette Collections.

10 Photo Labe
Labelling Pencil
A photo-safe pencil
pe for safely documenting on the backs
before putting them in the Power™ Sort Box.
of photos, befor 9. Power™ Palette Organiser Case & Folders
(products inside not included)

10. Photo Labelling Pencil

Get started by organising your photos and memorabilia

Power ™ Sort Organisation System

With the Power™ Sort Organisation System, you can establish and maintain a personalised method for organising and retrieving photos.
Once your photos are organised, it will be even easier to create photo albums that you can share and enjoy with family and friends.

Features of the Power™ Sort Organisation System:

• Assembly is easy. See the Power™ Sort Box booklet for diagrams “Even though I’m caught up with
and instructions. all my current photos, the Power™
• It is easy to sort photos into the individual compartment boxes.
Sort Organisation System has allowed
me to sort and organise my
• If you have panoramic photos, you can remove two compartment boxes
children’s photos.
and create a storage space. If you have just a few panoramic photos,
you can place them in the clear polypropylene storage pocket in the Now I’m ready to go back and
Power™ Sort Box cover.
assemble their childhood albums.”
• The Power™ Sort Box and Power™ Sort Mini Box are made of
photo-safe materials. The strong and durable construction will – Cheryl Lightle,
protect photos from being bent, creased or folded.They will also be free Creative Memories Co-Founder
from dirt, dust and light.
• Each compartment holds photos up to 12.7cm by 17.8cm in size.
• The white Power™ Sort Dividers can be labelled with a regular pencil
and reused as often as needed.
• The storage pocket in the box cover can hold 20.3cm by 25.4cm
photos, panoramic photos or memorabilia. (Do not mix photos and
memorabilia!) If you have a large amount of memorabilia, consider using
the File Mate. It’s perfect for the job!
• Compartment boxes are interchangeable between the Power™ Sort
Box and Power™ Sort Mini Box.
• Use the Power™ Sort Mini Box to safely transport photos
to Workshops.
• The Power™ Sort Mini Box can store double prints, photo CDs or
negatives. It’s also great for children, who may not have as many photos.
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Power ™Sort

Step Set your goals All the tips and techniques in the world won’t help if you don’t know where you
are headed, or what you want to accomplish.

Objectives of the Power™ Sort Organisation System:

• You will be able to retrieve photos from your files within minutes, the first time
you look for them.
• You will have one location for your photos.
• You will have a safe place to store your precious memories until you are ready
to put them into an album. You will be able to quickly lay out and complete an
entire album!

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Power ™Sort

Step Gather your photos Gather together all of your photos, memorabilia, old albums and negatives. Make
sure you have looked in all possible hiding spots. Check in kitchen drawers,
wardrobes, under the bed or anywhere else you may have photos.
Now you are ready to get started.

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Power ™Sort
Supplies you will need:
Step Start sorting • Photos and memorabilia. • Photo Labelling Pencil
• Table or floor space. (for labelling photos).
• Power™ Sort Box. • Regular lead pencil
(for labelling Power™ Sort dividers).
• Power™ Sort Mini Box.
• File Mate and folders.
• Additional Power™ Sort Dividers.
• Notepad.
• NegCare™ Sleeves
• NegCare™ Envelopes.

Sorting with the Power™ Sort Box

• Once all of your photos are gathered together, write a brief timeline for each
year or event on a notepad.
• Label the Power™ Sort dividers using the major events from the timeline and
place the dividers in the Power™ Sort compartment boxes. Ensure you use a
regular pencil so the writing can be erased at a later date. Once you put each
group of photos in an album, simply re-label the dividers and use again.
• Additional packs of Power™ Sort Dividers are available from your Consultant.
Organise your photos in whatever format works best for you, and subcategorise
as much as you need to. What’s important is that you devise a system that works
for you.
• Sort photos into categories based on your dividers and place them in the
compartment boxes. Don’t be afraid to remove photos that didn’t turn out. The
compartment boxes will hold photos as large as 12.7cm by 17.8cm.
• Separate your memorabilia from your photos as you sort.
• Use a Creative Memories Fine-Tip Pen and photo mounting paper to keep
important notes, facts or details about a category of photos. Record dates,
names and cross-reference memorabilia that is in the File Mate. Store this note
card with your group of photos. It’s a nice, photo-safe way to stay organised.
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• The Power™ Sort Mini Box is a great multipurpose product. It is perfect for
organising single-album projects, for storing duplicate photos, for organising and
protecting your negatives and index cards, or for archiving back-up images stored
on CD.
• Go through your photos a second time. Think about which albums you would
like to create.
• Pull out the compartment boxes with the photos you will use for your first
album project and put them in the Power™ Sort Mini Box.
• Use the Power™ Sort Mini Box to take your photos with you to Workshops, or
anywhere you will be working on your albums.The rest of your organised photos
can remain at home in your Power™ Sort Box, ready and waiting for your next
album project!

Memorabilia mayhem?
Take the tabs in the File Mate and label them in the same
way you organised your photo collection in the Power™
Sort Box. The File Mate is perfect for cards, certificates and
newspaper clippings. When you are ready to start an album,
your memorabilia will be easy to find.

Now you are organised, you

can continue your album project with

Power Layouts™
The Power Layouts™ technique is a great way to get your album projects started. This method will save you time by helping you organise each
page in advance, allowing you to store them neatly in a Crop Box until you can mount and journal your pages later and put them in an album.

Objectives of the Power Layouts™ technique: Supplies you will need:

• Flexibility to finalise pages at a later date. • Photos and memorabilia.
• The opportunity to add missing photos and memorabilia. • Thirty album page refills.
• Elimination of duplicate or blurry photos. • A Personal Trimmer.
• Easy co-ordination of two-page spreads. • Corner Rounder.
• Time for brainstorming on journalling ideas. • Custom Cutting System™ – Mat, Blades and Patterns.
• A feeling of accomplishment at the end of every step. • Power™ Palette Collection including paper packs, StoryBox Photo
• Quick album completion. Mats & Journalling Boxes, titles and Jumbo Great Lengths™ Stickers.
• Your album to have a cohesive quality, as you will be ‘seeing’ it as a • Colour Confidence™, Fast Formulas® and Ideas Books.
whole, not just as individual pages. • One Crop Box (for short-term page storage only).
• Photo Labelling Pencil.
• Notepad.

Power™ Palette Collections

- Romance, Primary, Jewel, Earthy and Pastel
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Power Layouts™

Step Organise 1 2 3 4 5
Notepad Power
Palette™
Embellishments
• Organise your work space like the diagram (right). Lay album pages Personal
Trimmer Power
out in groups of two across tables and/or floor, leaving some room Palette™ Custom
for cropping tools and enhancement supplies. Paper Cutting
Corner
• Place your cropping supplies on the end of a table for easy 6 7 8 9 Rounder
Packs System™
Tools
cropping access. Remember, if your first page will start an album,
there will be no companion page to create a two-page spread.

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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Power Layouts™

Step Distribute

• Distribute all of your photos onto the album pages in a probable

order. Fill all pages and/or use all of the photos in your possession.
• Separate photos by themes, days and events. Get a feel for how the
pages will look. Remember, the number of photos per page is flexible
and does not need to be permanent at this stage.
• Add any memorabilia to the appropriate pages.

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Power Layouts™

Step Crop

• Start again from the beginning and eliminate any photos that will
not fit. Put aside duplicate photographs to use later in children’s and
relatives’ albums.
• If you haven’t already, crop your photos and arrange them on
the page.
• Determine if your photos will need a two-page spread for
certain occasions.
• Insert additional refill pages for a new two-page spread next to the
first page and move the rest down.
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Power Layouts™

Step Choose Enhancements

• Starting again at the first page, plan out any papers or enhancements for
the photos on your pages.

• Choose your paper and lay them out on the page with your photos
and memorabilia. Lay any sheets of ABC/123 Stickers, titles, Jumbo
Great Lengths™ Stickers or other stickers with the page.

Make sure you:

• Write down specific memorabilia that you will need to locate.
• Make a note or sketch of any page ideas you may have seen at a
previous Workshop.
• Make notes about journalling details.

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Power Layouts™

Step Storage

• Stack your layout pages in order, with the last to go in your album
on the bottom and the first on top.

• Place this stack of pages in your Crop Box. Do not tilt the box; if
you are careful, your page layouts will remain intact. Remember, this
is not recommended for long-term page storage.

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Power Layouts™

Step Mounting & Journalling

• Since you will mount your photos on both sides of the pages that
you are storing, you will end up with extra album page refills. Use
these extra pages in another album project.
• Simply mount and journal at your convenience.
• Power Layouts™ allows you to organise, pre-crop, pre-select and
enhance while making the best use of your time. Since the goal of
Power Layouts™ is to mount continuous two-page spreads, you will
want to make sure your pages are properly sequenced for
front-and-back mounting.
• Mounting in an assembled album can help ensure an accurate flow of
your pre-planned album pages.

Congratulations on your success!

You have come a long way. Be proud of your success! You have taken the first step toward completing your album projects. Your Consultant has
tips, information and experience that can help get your album-making projects off to a great start. After all, if the photos were worth taking,
they are worth preserving!

Thank you to the following Consultants who assisted in creating

this handout: Lori Smith (ACT) and Chris Stait (NSW).
Page layout based on a design by Dale Tiernan (WA).
© 2008 Creative Memories
Printed in Australia
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